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Pattern Ghost

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  1. True, but he sunk a submarine with a punch in one panel, then couldn't get out of some ropes in a following panel. He deflects a shell with his forearm on the cover splash panel, but gets taken out by a hammer dropped on his head later. That's just inconsistency. And that's not something we're going to find any comics from that era letting get in the way of their fun.
  2. He had some dolphins haul him to some coral, which he used to cut the ropes.
  3. Wut? You need to go read his first appearance in More Fun Comics #73. "Cover" art: He's deflecting a large shell with his forearm. Page 5: He punches a deep dent in a sub with the caption: "REACHING THE SUBMARINE, AQUAMAN LUNGES A POWERFUL BLOW AT THE VESSEL'S HAUL -- AND THE METAL PLATES BUCKLE AND SNAP UNDER THE TERRIFIC IMPACT!" The sub is shown sinking in the next panel. From one punch. Page 6: A Nazi drops a sledge hammer on his head, and he's knocked out. So, he's no Superman. He's then tied up and weighted down, then tossed in the ocean. He then enlists the aid of sea critters to get untied. Really, kind of an inconsistent strength level in the story, probably because they wanted something for the sea critters to do. But he's still abnormally strong from the get-go.
  4. That's fair. Hopefully, you can still find the types of graphical stories you want to read. But that's not a limit the genre as a whole should accept.
  5. Given all the Batman and Robin gay jokes over the years, picking a Robin to come out as bi seems a little tone deaf. The big question for me is whether the change comes with good storytelling or is just tacked on for wokeness brownie points. If there's a good story to be told, then it's fine IMO. If it doesn't add anything to the story, then no point in introducing it IMO.
  6. What part's the misinformation? Here's what I've understood to be the claim, from the WSJ: "Ms. Johansson said in the suit that her agreement with Disney’s Marvel Entertainment guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release, and her salary was based in large part on the box-office performance of the film." If those terms are accurate, and Disney didn't renegotiate them when they changed the release strategy, then it seems like a breach of contract. Is the basic claim in question, or is it just the smear campaigns being waged by both sides that you're talking about?
  7. I'm indifferent. It looks OK, but just OK to me. Medium box office would be fine, IMO. I think it's a lot lower than it would be without COVID, and that the streaming numbers would have been better without the price gouging. If this were a Black Widow movie done during the place in the timeline that it deserved, where we could expect future movies, then I'd be hoping for its success, as I like the actress in the role. She's a good actress, good fit for the role and seems like an intelligent and reasonably decent human. She's not made any really polarizing comments that I can see. I saw one interview where she mentioned that she wished that she hadn't let the character be so sexualized early on, which I thought a bit silly given the character. However, it echoes far earlier statements she's made of wanting to just be a character actress, not cast as an ingenue due to her looks. That's all pretty reasonable. If she's making more woke-speak noises, then I'm not aware of them.
  8. Seriously, just googled it before I posted. Don't put words in my mouth. I said everyone took a hit during COVID, and this did better than most. You can't spin it as a failure under the circumstances.
  9. You keep beating this drum, but the box office was very poor for everything in 2021. Black Widow is the top earner in domestic box office. There is no way to paint that as a failure of the movie. To me, it simply looks like an average Marvel movie, which is still a good thing, just not something I'm excited enough for to drop $30 on for just me and my wife to see. It honestly has the same vibe for me as all the Disney Plus shows, as a set up for some character (Yelena) for the next phase. Which doesn't make it bad, but makes it less of its own thing in my opinion. (The Disney Plus shows have all been OK, but just a little lacking IMO.)
  10. Nah, the losers are the consumers. We'll have to have fifteen different streaming services to watch movies.
  11. That author needs to read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
  12. So, if I'm reading this thread correctly, Master-at-Arms is Captain Marvel's dad?
  13. Like many "Florida" Men. The state has an idiot magnet under it.
  14. Sounds more like a Bound Florida Man to me.
  15. And as annoying as I find her behavior in most interviews, I agree wholeheartedly with her about A Wrinkle in Time. I found it just OK, but I know I wasn't the target demographic there, and don't have a problem with it.
  16. No, he wasn't "functioning as a soldier." He was functioning as a dysfunctional soldier.
  17. You've got me curious. Do you have a link to this interview? ----------------------------/Line to counter stupid smashing posts together function/----------------------------------------- Simple solution: Don't make her arrogant to start with. Give her another issue to work through, like trust.
  18. Or the bullet could have just gone in an eye hole and bounced around.
  19. Trick question. All the movie Batmen are too stupid to take down the Joker.
  20. I actually liked the TS/SI mechanics. You had percentile skills. You listed your base skill, then the 1/2 and 1/4 value of it (not sure if it went down to 1/8 or not) on your character sheet. So, no need for task modifier charts, just roll the half or quarter roll if the Admin called for it. The single roll to hit and damage worked well with the hit location chart. The combat in the games I was in seemed to be pretty high lethality. The modules were great, and I think the emphasis was more on RP. I think the bones of it could be adapted to a lot of different settings, since the rules mostly stayed out of the way. It and Marvel FASERIP were rules light before it was trendy.
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